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Is this just a big sparrow, or a different bird? (vanity)
my backyard in central california | march 30, 2010 | Perky (that's me)

Posted on 03/30/2010 2:00:16 PM PDT by PERKY2004

One of our backyard bird feeders (central California) has been very popular today with what looks to me like a giant sparrow, but I was wondering if anyone could tell me for certain? He's about 4-5 times the size of the goldfinches and housefinches that usually hang out on the feeder; in fact, he's about the size of the mourning doves we also get. Anyway, I snapped a few photos before he fluttered off.

Thanks for your assistance in identifying this bird. CHIRP!


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To: isthisnickcool

For the record, I do keep finding coconuts all over the backyard ... no doubt from unladen birds.


21 posted on 03/30/2010 2:09:34 PM PDT by PERKY2004 (Proud military wife of a pilot ~ Praying for him and for all our troops!)
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To: PERKY2004

Looks like an overweight mockingbird but I didn’t know mockingbirds to eat seed.


22 posted on 03/30/2010 2:10:17 PM PDT by fso301
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To: PERKY2004
Northern Mockingbird

Tigger be cute!

23 posted on 03/30/2010 2:10:39 PM PDT by smokingfrog (Free Men will always be armed with the Truth.)
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To: PERKY2004

Let the cat out...

Mockingbirds are so damn annoying, especially at five in the morning.


24 posted on 03/30/2010 2:10:43 PM PDT by Drea
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To: PERKY2004

Looks to me like she’s getting ready to lay a few eggs.


25 posted on 03/30/2010 2:11:13 PM PDT by Helen
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To: PERKY2004

Looks like a well fed gray flycatcher.


26 posted on 03/30/2010 2:12:05 PM PDT by Mashood
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To: PERKY2004
Guess who?


27 posted on 03/30/2010 2:12:25 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: PERKY2004

Looks like a Pelican to me.


28 posted on 03/30/2010 2:12:47 PM PDT by w1andsodidwe (How can you tell when the President is lying? When his lips move, of course.)
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To: isthisnickcool

Well, it ain’t a Norwegian Blue....


29 posted on 03/30/2010 2:13:05 PM PDT by Loud Mime (Liberalism is a Socialist Disease)
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To: eCSMaster
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30 posted on 03/30/2010 2:14:18 PM PDT by PERKY2004 (Proud military wife of a pilot ~ Praying for him and for all our troops!)
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To: Loud Mime

..... beautiful plumage, though. Perhaps it’s pining for the fjords?


31 posted on 03/30/2010 2:15:05 PM PDT by PERKY2004 (Proud military wife of a pilot ~ Praying for him and for all our troops!)
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To: isthisnickcool
The swallow may fly south with the sun or the house martin or the plover may seek warmer climes in winter, yet these are not strangers to our land?

"Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?"

32 posted on 03/30/2010 2:18:24 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.)
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To: PERKY2004

..."fruit seeds, where's the fruit seeds,hey, where's the fweakin fruit seeds,pile of fast food here, get the fruit seeds"

33 posted on 03/30/2010 2:19:08 PM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)
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To: PERKY2004

Judging by your home page you have some thirty cats.


34 posted on 03/30/2010 2:20:33 PM PDT by Loud Mime (Liberalism is a Socialist Disease)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
"Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?"

An immortal, timeless line. It will live forever!

35 posted on 03/30/2010 2:21:44 PM PDT by Loud Mime (Liberalism is a Socialist Disease)
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To: muawiyah

36 posted on 03/30/2010 2:21:49 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: SkyDancer

Do you have a link to a reference? I’ve not heard of a Cooper jay.


37 posted on 03/30/2010 2:22:10 PM PDT by Misterioso
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To: PERKY2004
For the record, I do keep finding coconuts all over the backyard ... no doubt from unladen birds.

Coconuts? Don't worry about those. Just watch our for bunnies!

38 posted on 03/30/2010 2:22:30 PM PDT by isthisnickcool (NOVEMBER-2-2010!)
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To: WakeUpAndVote

Northern Mockingbird

39 posted on 03/30/2010 2:23:16 PM PDT by blam
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To: Loud Mime

Every proper Freeper ought to have that exchange memorized and be able to repeat it verbatim at any party.


40 posted on 03/30/2010 2:23:31 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.)
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